Google Books, Open Library, and other electronic book resources categorized by subject or source.

Search the full text of relevant materials

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Finding Books Online

Numerous books are now available electronically, licensed for use at UCB. Some are included in publisher packages or as special subject collections. See the Bioscience Library's Electronic Books page for full-text collections such as CRCnetBASE, The Prokaryotes, Springer E-books, ebrary, and Knovel Library.

Finding Articles

Links to the databases below can be found on the Bioscience Library Databases page. See Connecting from Off-Campus for information about connecting from off-campus locations. To access the full text of articles, use the button.

Important Databases for Plant & Microbial Biology

Years Covered

AGRICOLASubjects: Agriculture, biotechnology, economics, food and nutritionSources: Journal articles, USDA reports, and books, with many state agricultural and USDA publications from the early 1900s now being added. Focuses on U.S. publications.
(About AGRICOLA)

PUBMEDSubjects: Molecular and cell biology, microbiology and biomedicineSources: Life science journals, MEDLINE, and online booksNote: Use the link above to see a customized version of PubMed that includes links to UCB’s full text holdings.
(Guide: HTML | PDF)

1900-present

WEB OF SCIENCESubjects: Science, the social sciences, and the arts and humanitiesSources: Journals, conference proceedings and book chaptersNote: Features cited reference searching for articles that cite a given author or article

1899-present

Finding Dissertations

DISSERTATIONS & THESES1861-present; 1997-present for some full text
Provides access to the full text of all dissertations from UC since 1997. The first twenty-four pages from all other dissertations for which images exist online are also available. Also included are more than 1.5 million citations and abstracts to doctoral dissertations dating back to 1861. Searchable by thesis advisor.

Managing Your References and Websites

RefWorks: The UCB Libraries have purchased a site license to RefWorks. Sign up for a free account, and easily manage your references and format bibliographies with just a few clicks. (Tutorials and Guides)

EndNote: A powerful, full-featured desktop-based program to organize your references and format bibliographies. Available for purchase from the Scholar’s Workstation.